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This Week on the Semantic Web – 30 March 2012
This week on the Semantic Web Barak Obama backs “big data”, Wiki gets wiser and Kevin Lee delves deeper into Google’s semantic transformation. We also report on the launch of the Semantic University which aims to be the most accessible and complete place … Continue reading
This Week on the Semantic Web – 23 March 2012
This week on the blog, Knarig Arabshian of Alcatel-Lucent provides her insight on using semantic web technologies for API, while Jim Nichols of Forbes talks Google algorithms and content strategy. Meanwhile, Neil McAllister praises rich, interactive UIs but questions the shift of control of web development from designers … Continue reading
This Week on the Semantic Web – 16 March 2012
While Bryan Yurcan of Bank Tech, reports on financial institutions accumulating unstructured data at an increasingly rapid pace, and George Wright reveals the ever increasing difficulties of machine traffic, organiser of the Open-data Cities Conference, Greg Hadfield, gives his tips on emerging open-data technologies. … Continue reading
This Week on the Semantic Web – 24 Feb 2012
This week on the blog we look at how the semantic web will help us transcend borders; data processing algorithms beyond the world of maths, the European Commission to launch e-Government cross-border services and the evolution of Network technologies. Also, BloomReach reveals its big data … Continue reading
This Week on the Semantic Web – 13 Jan 2012
We have barely settled into 2012 and Google are already causing semantic tidal waves. We take a glimpse at Google’s latest revelation ‘Search, Plus Your World’ in the same week that Hendler, co-founder of the Semantic Web, is selected as … Continue reading
Who owns the semantic web?

A few weeks ago, Google, Bing and Yahoo unveiled a new standard for making webpage data more easily interpretable. Their structured data standard certainly offers a significant jump from a context where their engines can match the keywords contained in documents and rank them according to metrics like link and keyword density, to one where the engines are beginning to understand what the documents are actually about. Continue reading


